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Hollow World

by The Sorry Dead

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1.
Last time that you'll fall You know there is a place You can see it in your mind We'll all be given grace To rise from this and shine Someday we'll find a way Out of this damned place And we'll wrap ourselves in words And finally find some grace I know you hear it, I know you feel it I know you know this can't be all there is And in the darkness When you lose it You know you must be meant for something more But if I held you, just to heal you Send this ship back to some sacred shore But if I held you through the hell you Know its cause I know the spark in you Will grow brighter, that you'll fight it The voice that tries to leech the light from you That you'll lose it, that you'll leave it The voice that tries to leech the light from you You know there is a place You can see it in your mind We'll all be given grace To rise from this and shine Someday we'll find a way Out of this damned place And we'll wrap ourselves in words And finally find some grace When the light comes and unfolds you When you come to rise above it all When it holds you and it heals you This is the last time that you'll fall This is the last time that you'll fall low I will hold you flesh and bones and all When the earth shakes and the night calls You and I will rise above it all When the light shines in these tired eyes You and I will rise above it all When the light shines in these tired eyes This is the last time that you'll fall You know there is a place You can see it in your mind We'll all be given grace To rise from this and shine Someday we'll find a way Out of this damned place And we'll wrap ourselves in words And finally find some grace
2.
The Devil in Me There's a voice in me It speaks its poison And tries to bury me But I do my weeping underwater And though these footsteps fail me Know they'll never falter And if this mirror shoots me down I'll find my shelter in this sound Can't you hear me? I'll make my stand On my own stolen ground I'll be a rock That you can't push around Just let you go If I could just let you go You're the devil in me when the night comes cold and tells me all the things I stole, Hold me in the dark tonight so I might someday see the light, You and I will break someday on tides that I have thrown away and nothing you can do will change my ways You don't hold the key to the brighter parts of me So just let me be I watch you walk around inside me Waving your flag in the air Like you've won this wasted land But I'm still there You're the devil in me when the night comes cold and tells me all the things I stole, Hold me in the dark tonight so I might someday see the light, You and I will break someday on tides that I have thrown away and nothing you can do will change my ways
3.
The Lantern and the Lighthouse You know every way I've failed and how I stumbled through my days Trying to find some better way To keep these shadows away Leave a light on for me And I'll leave a light on for you, Teach this blind man to see So I can find my way to be I will keep this dark at bay I will climb out through the day I will keep this dark at bay I will climb out to the day I will keep us both inside I will hold back this dark night, I will keep us both inside I will hold back this dark I know it's you and I alone I know we'll never make it home But keep a light on for me And I know we'll see it through And if this night it runs you though Keep a light on for you I'll keep a light on for you I'll keep a light on I will keep this dark at bay I will climb out through the day I will keep this dark at bay I will climb out to the day I will keep us both inside I will hold back this dark night, I will keep us both inside I will hold back this dark
4.
Embers 04:43
Embers Coloured heart of the broken sky This light it leads me down Is there to be no escape? My lips know words that I will never speak And all these broken things That I have idolised How they litter the streets like abandoned toys Let the angels fall Cos' there's just devils down here But I still wait for a hurricane To wash away these stains A wind to howl my name Cos' I can feel me fade I can feel me fade I am programmed obsolescence In a world that's built the same All of us are embers But none of us flames Winter howls my name Cos' I can feel me fade All of us are embers But none of us flames Let the angels fall There's just devils down here
5.
These Arms of Mine Let the night reel you in Until our bodies just give in Until we can no longer tell Where you or I begin I know I've been away I know I've been astray But you were always entwined Within these arms of mine So hold me ever closer until I fade in To every burning ember of the spark you've within I want to grow old knowing my heart was sold To someone who turns my tears into gold I know you've seen me give in In the dark of day I let the devil in And in the chambers of my heart When I was falling apart You were always within And I know I'll fade away I know it's getting late But you are always entwined Within these arms of mine
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Hollow World 03:33
Hollow World I'm strung up and tongue-tied Wired up and wired in My mind's lost its eye Every passion is tranquilized I can't find the key to my comfortable cage I'm hung up and wrung dry Body willing but paralysed The colours they blind my eyes And all my rage is stuck inside I can't find the key to my comfortable cage They hollow out the world So nothing fills you up They hollow out the world So nothing needs your love No nothing needs you now I'm cold and I'm cutthroat Nothing left to shout about They've televised my life Till I can't tell my wrong from right I can't find the key to my comfortable cage They hollow out the world So nothing fills you up They hollow out the world So nothing needs your love No nothing needs you now
7.
A Spark for the Dark See the city's dark heart tonight And how it's black as my soul Something's blackened out the stars tonight It's cruel and cold It's black as my soul See I'm spitting out sparks tonight While we're singing to your soul I'll break into your heart tonight Until it's cruel and it's cold Until it's black as my soul So hold me closer now until you know me well So you can separate your heavens from your hells Dance me back into the dark Cos' I am stealing your spark (Resbina) I do not fear the darkness The final place for the reckless I drives you mad, it breaks your heart Eats your mind and drinks your soul I feel blessed in the fire, I come and light your pyre Quench your whole desire, I'm taking you higher You're the one that I've been waiting for You're the face of the unknown And I can't feel the heat anymore For the first time I'm in love, your love Encrypted in the core of my memory Like a splinter in my mind and I can see it in your eyes Do you believe in fate? I am the priest and the altar For all of your sins I am the unhappy ending For all you begin I am all of your sins So hold me closer now until you know me well So you can separate your heavens from your hells Dance me back into the dark Cos' I am stealing your spark
8.
We'll never know the night Through all our summers gone I held on This light fed away I waited I stayed To hold you in my arms For one more day So when these lights come fading out Don't tell me I was broken Or what to shout about Cos' I know the night will come and fall on us I know the night will break upon us These nights that I've known Have never taken my throne Breathe me out till I know There's nothing in this song That you let fall away So I could stay here now I'll hold the waves so you won't sail away I'll turn the tides to stay here in this light And you and I Will never know the night Though the winter's long We held on The light fed away But you and I stayed To kindle this flame for our nights and our days A broken embrace So you won't fall away In fading lights and drowning waves The broken voice of one who's saved Your soul in mine We walk the line In faded lights and fractured skies The day we die this light divides But you and I will still collide The day we die this light divides But you and I Will never know the night Night and Day If I wanted to remember you I know it would be hard I wish I could say something romantic Like I'll find you in my heart But the truth is that I lost you And I don't know where to start Another sad song 'Bout where I might've belonged If the blade didn't fall If the sirens never called A memory of light Upon a landscape of you And every curve could capture me Like our bodies at least could tell the truth If I wanted to find you now I'd have no words to say I'd thank you for the waves and the hurricanes And I'd send you on your way We were just night and day
9.
Unknown Roads No song I've sung has ever stayed the same They all end whispering your name Again In these violet hours when the sun goes down It's getting harder now To keep you off my mind I put the bottle down Get my feet on the ground But it's hard to keep your heart From hanging round And I weep and I rail and I try to stay awake But there's something that holds me here And I know you and I, we're far apart But it's never too far from my heart I will know when these chains from me fall So I can beat upon these walls And I will hold to theses unknown roads Till I have opened up my soul I will know There's a fire in me now that is never growing cold So I spin this world around And I break upon the waves Of every stolen kiss I should've saved But I'll learn to let it fall Get back to climbing up these walls Cos' I've no one but the ghost of you to blame I will know when these chains from me fall So I can beat upon these walls And I will hold to theses unknown roads Till I have opened up my soul I will know There's a fire in me now that is never growing cold
10.
Wild Wind 03:02
Wild Wind We set sail on a stormy night I watched the lights disappear And I feared what I'd left behind But I let the wild wind steer Sorrow always follows you There's no shadow like your own There's no shore I ever sailed to That took me far enough from home So I sail into the wind And I let the waves fall I know I'm castaway I hear all the sirens call I let the wild wind steer But I keep raising sail I'm my own mutineer And as the lights disappear I let the wild wind steer I no longer seek to be saved I roll with waves
11.
Warrior Born 03:12
Warrior Born I've been shot down before That's my blood there upon the floor I've got wounds within wounds I've got scars that keep score I'm no dead man walking I am warrior born So bandage me good And sharpen my sword Nobody's my master Nobody's my lord I hold to a different code I know this armours a lie But someone's got to lift this load There must be a good way to die I'm no dead man walking I am warrior born I've been struck down before I have walked in these wounds To beg succour at your door But I am forged in these flames I'll fight this raging horde Till this kingdom bears my name I'm no dead man walking I am warrior born I'm no dead man walking I'm the king on his throne
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Night and Day If I wanted to remember you I know it would be hard I wish I could say something romantic Like I'll find you in my heart But the truth is that I lost you And I don't know where to start Another sad song About where I might've belonged If the blade didn't fall If the sirens never called A memory of light Upon a landscape of you And every curve could capture me Like our bodies at least could tell the truth If I wanted to find you now I'd have no words to say I'd thank you for the waves and the hurricanes And I'd send you on your way Like we were just night and day

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released June 13, 2016

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The Sorry Dead Reunion

The Sorry Dead were formed in Réunion in 2016. The group is spearheaded by the former Winter Kings frontman Austin Kehoe (Eire)and producer Resbina (Réunion). Their music interweaves lyrical intensity and a blend of genres to create an unusual sound that is difficult to categorize with elements of trip-hop, electro and rock; This is music for the sleepless view. ... more

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